Contributing to the general interest of the book are a numberof selected illustrations. In addition to the imaginatively executedWilliam A. Berry drawing of Chief Bowles, which appears asthe frontispiece, there are also reproductions of the CherokeeTreaty of February 23, 1836, a map of the Cherokee Land Grant,a map of the Republic of Texas in 1845, and a portion of a letterfrom Sam Houston to Superintendent of Indian Affairs JosephC. Eldredge.A summary judgment of Texas Indian Papers, 1825-1843, mustbe heavily weighted with positive, affirmative statements. Con-gratulations should be extended to the members of the TexasLibrary and Historical Commission and to Dorman H. Winfrey,the State Archivist, who shepherded the publication through theeditorial process with commendable skill.CHESTER V. KIELMAN"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero.By Americo Paredes. Austin (University of Texas Press),1958. Pp. 262. $5.00.Whether pro or con, Texans view native products with pride,warmth, and a type of candor that is possibly partisan. As Texasinstitutions mature and flourish, this ethnocentrism should beincreasingly justified by productions in the graphic arts, andespecially those that are scholarly. By way of subject, author, pub-lisher, and scholarly aura, Pistol in His Hand wears the Texasbrand.An outgrowth of several years of study-some financed throughthe University of Texas-this book took its initial shape as adoctoral dissertation in the University's Department of English;a portion, Chapter II, "The Legend," was published previouslyas the lead story in Mody C. Boatright (ed.), Mesquite andWillow (Dallas, 1957) -Thematically, Pistol in His Hand is concerned with the after-glow of human group conflict wherein facts metamorphose intofolklore and thence into balladry. The overall frame of referenceis the so-called Mexican persecution by Anglo-Americans alongthe Texas-Mexico border where, from the time of the TexasRevolution until World War II,